Junior California U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (pictured) made history Tuesday (August 11) when Joe Biden (the presumptive Democratic nominee for president) chose her as his running mate.
Harris, 55, is the third woman in U.S. history to ever be nominated for the vice-presidency. She is also the first woman of color to ever win the nomination. Previously, Harris was running for the presidency herself and was one Biden’s most bitter rivals on the Democratic candidate side of the presidential campaign trail.
She launched her presidential campaign in January 2019. During the presidential debates for Democratic candidates, Harris obliterated Biden for his highly questionable track record in politics. The junior senator called out the former U.S. vice-president for his support of segregationist-style public school busing policies when he was a federal legislator.
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“There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools. And she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me,” Harris said in an emotional tirade onstage at a Miami-based debate.
She ended her presidential campaign in December 2019. Though Harris was correct in calling out Biden for his sponsorship and engineering of racist policies during a checkered political career, the mistakes she made during her long career as a prosecutor in California were absolutely macabre.
A massive number of single black mothers were displaced by a harsh anti-truancy law Harris endorsed and helped push through the California state legislature when she was San Francisco’s District Attorney. When the children of these mothers missed too many days during a certain month at school, the mothers were thrown into jail.
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